About the Role 

The Construction Manager – Buildings is responsible for leading and coordinating all building construction activities across assigned projects within the Antarctic Infrastructure Renewal Alliance (AIR Alliance) program. The role provides leadership throughout the planning, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality project delivery.

The Construction Manager leads multidisciplinary delivery teams, subcontractors, suppliers, and key stakeholder interfaces to achieve project objectives in accordance with program schedules, budgets, contractual requirements, and quality standards. The role is accountable for construction performance, site coordination, risk management, logistics integration, and fostering a strong safety culture, while ensuring completed assets are successfully commissioned and transitioned into operational use.

The role also requires periodic deployment to Antarctica to oversee and monitor construction activities, verify that works are being delivered in accordance with project requirements, and provide onsite leadership and support to delivery teams. While deployed, the Construction Manager is responsible for building and maintaining effective working relationships with station personnel, Australian Antarctic Division representatives, and other key stakeholders to ensure successful integration of construction activities within the station environment and support the achievement of broader operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities 

Accountabilities

• Delivery of coordinated, buildable and NCC-compliant structural, civil and multidisciplinary building outcomes.
• Achievement of design, procurement, construction, certification and handover milestones.
• Effective management of consultants, subcontractors, suppliers and technical reviewers.
• Maintain design intent, compliance and technical assurance through construction and handover.
• Development of procurement packages that optimise cost, schedule, and risk outcomes.
• Identification and mitigation of design and construction risks. Lead the planning, coordination and execution of construction activities for assigned works, ensuring delivery in accordance with approved safety, quality, programme and budget requirements.
• Develop and implement construction strategies, methodologies, staging plans, logistics plans and site establishment requirements to support efficient project delivery in remote and operational environments.
• Manage day-to-day construction delivery activities, supervising subcontractors, suppliers and site teams to ensure compliance with project specifications, drawings, permits and Alliance requirements.
• Monitor construction progress against programme milestones and productivity targets, identifying delays, constraints and risks and implementing corrective actions to maintain schedule commitments.
• Coordinate interfaces between design, procurement, construction, commissioning, logistics and operational stakeholders to facilitate seamless project execution.
• Lead construction planning meetings, daily pre-starts, coordination workshops and subcontractor performance reviews.
• Review and approve construction work packs, ITPs, SWMS, lift studies, staging plans and temporary works proposals to ensure safe and effective execution of works.
• Drive a culture of safety excellence and ensure all construction activities are undertaken in compliance with legislative requirements, Alliance procedures and client expectations.
• Manage construction quality outcomes, ensuring inspections, testing, defect management, commissioning and handover activities are completed in accordance with project requirements.
• Oversee workforce planning and resource allocation, ensuring labour, plant, equipment and specialist subcontractor resources are available to meet project commitments.
• Support commercial management through monitoring subcontractor performance, assessing variations, reviewing progress claims and identifying cost risks and opportunities.
• Provide construction leadership and mentoring to Project Engineers, Site Engineers, Supervisors and subcontractor management teams.
• Lead constructability reviews throughout design development and procurement phases to improve safety, programme, cost and operational outcomes.
• Manage site logistics, material deliveries, storage, cranage and installation sequencing in conjunction with project and logistics teams.
• Support commissioning, practical completion, defects rectification and handover activities, ensuring operational readiness and successful transition to the client.
• Safe delivery of construction activities with zero harm outcomes.
• Achievement of construction productivity, programme and budget targets.
• Effective management of subcontractor and supplier performance.
• Delivery of quality works that comply with contract requirements and statutory obligations.
• Successful commissioning, practical completion and handover of project assets.
• Leadership and development of project delivery personnel and site teams.

 Responsibilities

• Lead development and coordination of structural and civil packages from detailed design through Building Permit / Issue for Construction, shop drawings, installation and technical close-out, maintaining design intent and coordinating structural, civil, architectural, façade, fire, building services and specialist supplier interfaces.
• Manage consultant, subcontractor and supplier design responsibilities, interfaces, deliverables, performance and technical submissions, including shop drawings, samples, prototypes, construction methodologies and close-out requirements.
• Review and challenge design and supplier submissions for NCC compliance, design intent, constructability, safety, quality, cost and programme impacts, and lead design coordination, compliance, constructability, value engineering and technical risk workshops.
• Develop procurement strategies, technical scopes, tender documentation, specifications and schedules for major work packages, clearly defining design, NCC, certification and interface requirements; lead tender evaluations and provide technical recommendations for subcontractor and supplier selection.
• Monitor design, procurement, technical approvals and supplier activities against programme and construction requirements, and manage technical procurement in alignment with budget, forecasting, programme and risk requirements.
• Support project planning and pre-construction from inception through execution, collaborating with estimating, commercial and delivery teams to establish construction methodologies, staging, logistics and project strategies, including early contractor and key supplier engagement.
• Identify and mitigate design, construction, programme, staging, logistics and constructability risks, and provide technical leadership through procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Verify construction against approved documentation, NCC requirements, design intent, specifications and certified details; manage RFIs, design changes, departures, non-conformances and consultant or supplier deliverables; and support resolution of complex engineering and construction issues.
• Coordinate NCC, Building Permit, quality, safety, environmental, inspection, testing, certification and handover requirements, and obtain timely decisions and approvals from the Design Team, Building Surveyor, technical authorities, Project Owner and other stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, consultants, authorities, subcontractors, suppliers and internal stakeholders, leading coordination meetings and technical workshops as required.

Qualifications & Experience 

• Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering. Construction Management or Building qualifications may be considered where supported by substantial project engineering experience on complex Australian buildings.
• Strong knowledge of structural, civil and building construction
• Demonstrated experience coordinating architectural, structural, civil, façade, fire, building services and specialist subcontractor interfaces.
• Proven capability delivering building design through procurement, value engineering, shop drawings, construction and technical close-out, including supplier-designed systems and prefabricated assemblies.
• Complex Australian building delivery, including structural and civil construction, constructability, value engineering and prefabrication.
• Proficient working knowledge of the National Construction Code, Australian Standards, building approvals and technical certification.
• Multidisciplinary design leadership and interface coordination across consultants, subcontractors, suppliers and technical stakeholders.
• Procurement, commercial awareness and programme, cost and delivery management.

Bouygues Construction Australia values diversity and welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.